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Formats: Purple Loring

See also: Green Loring.

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Spine and Cover

Publishers: A. K. Loring

• Purple Lorings generally feature blind-stamping on the front and back boards, in varying designs, but always with an elaborate border.
• The spine is printed in gold, and usually features some sort of illustration above the publisher's name at the foot of the spine, and filligree around the title.
• Some variations feature black printing on cover and spine in addition to the gold.
• Of the Alger first editions, these are some of the earliest. Because of that, Purple Lorings may often appear brown instead of purple, especially on the spine, due to sun damage.

Titles in this Format

Titles marked with asterisks (*) are first editions. There are 35 known titles that were printed in this format. Do you have one that's not on this list? Let us know!